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user2211050
user2211050

Reputation: 139

Var_dump in php is not printing the total content just showing

My requirement is to read the content of a php file and show the content in front end. For this I have used 

$section = file_get_contents('test.php');
var_dump($section);
?>

But it is printing the values, and after some charater, it is just printing ... not the complete content. I have tried to print through echo and print_r method but in no case i got the full content.

My app.php is something like this :

<?php
$data =  array(
        array('id' => 1, 'first' => "abc", 'last' => 'def', 'email' => '[email protected]'),
        array('id' => 2, 'first' => "ghi", 'last' => 'jkl', 'email' => '[email protected]'),
        array('id' => 3, 'first' => "mno", 'last' => 'pqr', 'email' => '[email protected]'),
        array('id' => 4, 'first' => "stu", 'last' => 'vwx', 'email' => '[email protected]'),
        array('id' => 5, 'first' => "Y", 'last' => 'Z', 'email' => '[email protected]'),
       );
    echo json_encode(array(
            'success'   => true,
            'message'   => 'loading data',
            'data'      => $data
        ));
?>

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5202

Answers (3)

MIK_MM
MIK_MM

Reputation: 21

Hey I know its bit late but i hope someone can get help from here...

These are configurable variables in php.ini:

Try to find ; XDEBUG Extension

zend_extension = "your path to php/zend_ext/php_xdebug-2.2.3-5.4-vc9-x86_64.dll"

[xdebug]
xdebug.var_display_max_depth = 10

Of course, these may also be set at runtime via ini_set(), useful if you don't want to modify php.ini and restart your web server but need to quickly inspect something more deeply.

ini_set('xdebug.var_display_max_depth', 10);

Hope this help someone!

Upvotes: 2

RobIII
RobIII

Reputation: 8821

You need to escape characters like < and > to &lt; and &gt;.

var_dump(htmlentities($section));

Or:

echo htmlentities($section);

If you do a 'view source' in your browser you'll see that the rest is actually there but your browser is trying to interpret the text as HTML.

Also note that file_get_contents doesn't execute the PHP (test.php in your example); it just reads the file as if it's a text-file. You might want to have a look at include, include_once, require or require_once if you want the code in the file to actually be executed.

Upvotes: 4

user1776226
user1776226

Reputation:

you try to echo code it will try to parse it, so pass it through htmlspecialchars($source) and it should work.

Something like this:

<?php
echo "<pre>";
echo htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents('test.php'));
echo "</pre>";

?>

Upvotes: 3

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